After 37 years in sports broadcasting, Alton still enjoyed his weekly climb up the ladder into the press box to call the plays at high school football games. When physicians in the Triangle diagnosed him with lung cancer, he wasn’t ready to give up.

Karen found a cyst in the curve of her neck. She was given 18 months to live. Looking for a glimmer of hope and a second opinion, she turned to the lung cancer team of the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center’s Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Clinic.

Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center

Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center provides outpatient cancer treatment services on the medical campus of Vidant Medical Center and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Cancer experts here diagnose and treat thousands of cancer patients every year. Through clinical trials, cancer patients have access to the latest, most promising treatments. The expert staff at Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center is a resource for patients wanting to learn how to manage their illness and take advantage of services available close to home.